First Nations peoples have an invaluable lesson to non-indigenous people about how to respect and treasure all Australian elders. Australia has much to learn how we end elderly loneliness.
One man who stood next to the PM when he announced the referendum wording is Mr Thomas Mayo who sits on the PM's Referendum Working Group which drafted the referendum question. Mayo published his book titled "The Voice to Parliament Handbook". His signature is on the Uluru Statement and he has spent 18 months travelling around Australia trying to talk Australians into changing the Constitution to include the Voice. He is a union official and self-described “militant” on record as saying the Voice will “punish politicians”, “abolish colonialist institutions” and “pay the rent, pay reparations and compensation”. Rather than the Voice being the “inspiring and unifying Australian moment” and "modest request" described by the PM, Mr Mayo told a Communist conference “there is nothing that we can do that is more powerful than building a first nations’ Voice, a black institution, a black political force to be reckoned with”. At a 2021 "Invasion Day" protest he described “the powers that be” as “murderers”, and said he was “sick of governments not listening to our voice” so planned “to use the rulebook of the nation to force them”. At Black Lives Matter protests and other addresses he reveals the Voice’s radical origins in the Search Foundation which describes itself as the “successor organisation of the Communist Party of Australia”.
Please note the career of Gail Kennedy of the Far North Queensland Kennedy mob. Thankfully, (for me, cis het white fem) with Gail as my other mother my life as a 2 Spirit began when Auntie Gail saved my mum's life when they were both pregnant, Auntie Gail was pregnant with a male and female set of twins. Since then, Auntie Gail has spent another 47 years caring for her tribe with notable persistence. Auntie Gail (known as Gail Lord, happened upon me in rural south east Qld out Waka Waka way a couple of years back. Both my mum's are in their 70s now. Healthy old ducks.
First Nations peoples have an invaluable lesson to non-indigenous people about how to respect and treasure all Australian elders. Australia has much to learn how we end elderly loneliness.
One man who stood next to the PM when he announced the referendum wording is Mr Thomas Mayo who sits on the PM's Referendum Working Group which drafted the referendum question. Mayo published his book titled "The Voice to Parliament Handbook". His signature is on the Uluru Statement and he has spent 18 months travelling around Australia trying to talk Australians into changing the Constitution to include the Voice. He is a union official and self-described “militant” on record as saying the Voice will “punish politicians”, “abolish colonialist institutions” and “pay the rent, pay reparations and compensation”. Rather than the Voice being the “inspiring and unifying Australian moment” and "modest request" described by the PM, Mr Mayo told a Communist conference “there is nothing that we can do that is more powerful than building a first nations’ Voice, a black institution, a black political force to be reckoned with”. At a 2021 "Invasion Day" protest he described “the powers that be” as “murderers”, and said he was “sick of governments not listening to our voice” so planned “to use the rulebook of the nation to force them”. At Black Lives Matter protests and other addresses he reveals the Voice’s radical origins in the Search Foundation which describes itself as the “successor organisation of the Communist Party of Australia”.
Please note the career of Gail Kennedy of the Far North Queensland Kennedy mob.
Thankfully, (for me, cis het white fem) with Gail as my other mother my life as a 2 Spirit began when Auntie Gail saved my mum's life when they were both pregnant, Auntie Gail was pregnant with a male and female set of twins.
Since then, Auntie Gail has spent another 47 years caring for her tribe with notable persistence.
Auntie Gail (known as Gail Lord, happened upon me in rural south east Qld out Waka Waka way a couple of years back.
Both my mum's are in their 70s now. Healthy old ducks.